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Calculate 360 points equally spaced around a unit circle.
#!/usr/bin/env python3
import math
angle = math.radians(1)
a = math.cos(angle)
b = math.sin(angle)
x = 1.0
y = 0.0
for n in range(361):
print('{:3d} {:11.8f} {:11.8f}'.format(n, x, y))
x, y = (a*x - b*y), (a*y + b*x)
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Here is the output of this program:

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